Opensolaris Live USB Creator

Just been alerted to this: clicky

Though if you don’t have access to a Windows box, but do already have access (or know someone with access) to an OpenSolaris box, then this method works too.

rm -rf tragedy

It happened a couple of weeks ago now.  I plugged in my external hard drive “POCKET” and OpenSolaris mounted it under /media/POCKET.  I was going to copy my films and TV series over to POCKET as I was travelling up to see Faye in Aber. 

Beleg-Iâ gets an upgrade

It happened a couple of weeks ago now, I’ve upgraded the storage in beleg-iâ.  It now has 4x 500GB disks!
I have them in two mirrors, one for the boot disk and one for data.

DynDNS and my server

I meant to blog this ages ago, and have only just remembered about it!

I wanted a way for me to access my server when I wasn’t on the local network.  A friend pointed me to DynDNS, this will give you a domain name (e.g. myname.something.com) which you can update to point to your IP.  However, you need a method for updating the DNS entry, this is needed because everytime I switch off my modem and turn it back on, Tiscali give me a new IP.

My new IBM Thinkpad X32 and wireless

Today I took delivery of the four year old IBM Thinkpad X32.  With it’s 1.8GHz Pentium M, 1GB of RAM and it’s “massive” 40gb HDD I thought it was an excellent machine to use as a portable OpenSolaris machine.

Create an OpenSolaris 2008.11 LiveUSB

T’other day I won an IBM X32 on eBay (more on that tomorrow).  I want to install OpenSolaris on the laptop, but it doesn’t have an optical drive…

I set about looking for a solution.  Unfortunatly, Googling around didn’t throw up anything to begin with   So I thought I’d record my steps as a walkthru.

Static IP on OpenSolaris

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File system frenzy

On my server, I’ve been looking into having various ZFS file systems, this would allow me to better manage parts of the system later on.

I have so far set it all up as such:

Installing GCC on OpenSolaris

Ok, I know I’ve blogged this before, but this is about doing it via the command line:

I installed everything as root…
# pkg install SUNWgcc

Simple as that!

Some other packages people might like:
# pkg install SUNWgmake
# pkg install SUNWsvn

These have all come in handy whilst setting up my new server.

Beleg Iâ – Building

So, I had ordered the parts and the parts had arrived.  I was very good, although everything was with me by last Tuesday, I refrained from building them up until Friday.

So this is my new case: